Everything about Uppingham totally explained
Disambiguation: "Uppingham" is the colloquial name for Uppingham School
Uppingham is a small market town in the county of
Rutland in the
East Midlands of
England. It is located on the
A47 between
Leicester and
Peterborough, about 6
miles south of the county town,
Oakham. The bypass opened in June 1982.
Uppingham is notable as the home of
Uppingham School, an
independent school founded in 1584. It is claimed that the school has the largest playing fields of any school in the country, although that's contested by
Christ's Hospital.
There is also a
state secondary school (
Uppingham Community College) and two
primary schools — Leighfield and Uppingham
Church of England School. A proposal to replace the primary schools with a newly built school was rejected in 2007.
Uppingham ward, which includes the neighbouring parish of
Beaumont Chase, has three councillors on
Rutland County Council. It is the only ward in the county to have more than two representatives.
Uppingham
railway station, at the end of a branch line from
Seaton, was opened in 1894 and was located at the bottom of Queen Street. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1960 and the line closed completely in 1964. The station area has now been redeveloped as an
industrial estate.
Uppingham
workhouse was first recorded in 1777 with space for 40 inmates. Until 1834 it was a parish workhouse, but in 1836 the Uppingham
Poor Law Union began, and a new Union workhouse was built on the Leicester Road to house 158 people to a design by architect
William Donthorne. In the Great War, the building was used as an auxiliary hospital staffed by a
Voluntary Aid Detachment. The workhouse was closed in 1929, and taken over by
Uppingham School who use the building as a boarding house.
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